Travel between Louisiana and California along our southern-most route. While onboard the Sunset Limited, settle back and watch the Bayou Country, Mexican border, southwestern deserts and California mountains pass by your window. Three trains depart weekly in each direction with an enhanced schedule and departure times for westbound trains. You.

The Sunset Limited scales mountains,reaching a height of 5,074 feet at Paisano,Texas. We cross rivers and deserts,dipping to 231 feet below sea level at Salton Sea,California. That's an altitude variation of almost a mile. Our route takes us through five states-Louisiana,Texas,New Mexico,Arizona,and California-covering 2,0220miles. Best of all.

Sunset Limited route guide. The Sunset Limited route guide cover, from a printed color brochure from September 1973.

Multicolor printed paper route guide issued in March 1989 for the Sunset Limited New Orleans-Los Angeles. Guide offers brief descriptions of cities and towns along the route, as well as a map. From the Ann Owens Collection. The Sunset Limited, begun by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1894, is one of the oldest named passenger.

The Sunset Limited The Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited was a passenger train that for most of its history ran between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, California, over the nation's second transcontinental route. Route West of New Orleans, the route was owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The name Sunset Limited traces its origins.

Sunset Limited - Amtrak information and ticket information web page. The Sunset Limited is a long distance Amtrak train service between New Orleans and Los Angeles with stops in Houston, San Antonio, and Tucson. Trains operate 3 days a week. In San Antonio, westbound Sunset Limited train is combined with Texas Eagle train from Chicago and.

Amtrak's Sunset Limited: Taking the train from Los Angeles to New Orleans Kerry van der Jagt For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript.

The Sunset Limited is a three times weekly Long Distance train between New Orleans and Los Angeles by way of San Antonio, El Paso, and Tuscon. Eastbound from Los Angeles, travelers have the option of a full breakfast, lunch, and dinner the day following their departure, with a full breakfast, lunch, and dinner the following day before a late evening arrival into New Orleans. Westbound from New.

Eastbound On The Sunset Limited: by Jack M. Turner. Following our Panama Canal cruise aboard the "Island Princess" and a day of sightseeing between San Pedro and Malibu, we headed to Los Angeles Union Station to board the eastbound Sunset Limited.

25.05.2007 · The highest elevation of any AZ town on the Sunset route is Cochise, AZ at 4225 feet, about 10 mi. east of the Texas Canyon Summit. It is a pretty safe guess to say the Sunset may never travel above 4700-5000 feet. Your are correct about the Sunset being the route with the lowest high elevation. The next lowest, Marias Pass on the Empire.